A thought from Morning Prayer

The Little Chapter from Ephesians stuck with me this morning:

And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, with which you were marked with a seal for the day of redemption. Put away from you all bitterness and wrath and anger and wrangling and slander, together with all malice, and be kind to one another, tender-hearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ has forgiven you.

I guess the issue of bitterness, passion, anger is what struck me. We need to put that aside in our interactions with others and ourselves, if we are to begin to approach what it is that God desires for us.